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Show Local Beet Growers Ask Immediate Price Action Colorado Congressman Raps Secretary of AgricultureTelegrams and Resolutions Reso-lutions Sent to President Roosevelt. Secretary of Agriculture to sign the Sugar Stabilization Agreement, the continuation of ruinous competition in the industry and a constant drop in the price of sugar, the company can pay only $4.50 per ton. This represents repre-sents a loss in initial payment of $45,000. The sugar beet growers of this section have been represented at hearings hear-ings at Washington, during which time an agreement was arrived at by representatives of the major U. S. sugar su-gar interests. We respectfully urge you to insist, that Secretary Wallace sign the Sugar Stabilization Agreement. North Sanpete Beet Ass'n., John W. Irons. Sanpete - Sevier Beet Ass'n., C. L. Despain. South Sevier Beet Ass'n., Daniel Peterson. Some 250 beet growers of Sanpete and Sevier counties heard Congress-( Congress-( Continued on last page) Following the addresses of Congressman Con-gressman Fred Cummings of Colorado Colora-do and J. W. Gillman, president of the Utah State Beet Growers association at the high school building last Friday Fri-day afternoon, forty-six individual telegrams and one from the State Beet Growers association were forwarded for-warded to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Washington, asking the official to use his influence to induce Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to immediately take action on the stabilization of sugar prices, by signing the agreement which, so ' far, he has steadfastly refused to do, ! much to the detriment of the beet frowers of the western sections where beets are grown. In addition to the telegrams, a resolution was passed by officers of the North and South Sanpete San-pete and South Sevier Beet Growers associations, and forwarded to Presi-1 dent Roosevelt. The resolution adopted adopt-ed and forwarded to the President follows: Gunnison, Utah, November 10, 1933. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D.' C. Sevier and Sanpete counties, Utah, are admirably adapted for the culture of sugar beets. They are our major cash crop. One thousand farm families fami-lies are directly interested and 30,000 people indirectly interested in sugar beets. We are growing this year 8,000 acres, comprising about 90,000 tons, which means a payment of $350,000. The Gunnison Sugar factory employs 250 laborers with a payroll of $60 OOo per year. Sugar beets fit admirably into bur crop rotation. We now have two sugar factories in these two counties idle. We need this cash income. Two months ago officers of the Cunnison Sugar company felt that they could pay $5.00 per ton initial payment, but due to the failure of the Local Beet Growers Ask Action on Price (Continued from page 1) man Ctnnming.s condemn Secretary Wallace for his stand in refusing to act on the sugar agreement, and at intervals the speaker was interrupted wi'h applause. Pertinent points were brought out by Congressman Cum-mings, Cum-mings, and it was pointed out that the sugar industry, one of the largest agricultural enterprises in the western west-ern state, was being crippled to a point where it would soon pass to a dead industry and result in losses of millions of dollars to the manufacturers manufactur-ers and growers. Secretary Wallace was scored severely by the speaker in refusing to sign the agreement that would keep the sugar industry alive and furnish a livelihood to the farmers farm-ers of the west. American labor, it was pointed out, cannot compete with the foreigners. The latter earn about $.10 per year working on the Cuban plantations, and if Americans are to be put on the same level, there would be starvation and our beet fields would be id!". We must have ample protection, and if our beet industry is killed to "stuff" the pockets of a gTOup of eastern capitalists then we have no government that seeks anything any-thing like equality, concluded the speaker. Mr. Gillman, president of the State Beet Growers association, gave a brief address and urged that all the beet growers in Sevier and Sanpete counties coun-ties firmly back the officers who are seeking the president of the United SUites to assist in getting Secretary Wallace to sign the agreement that would aid the beet growers. Through failure of Wallace to carry out the plans, beet payments for October' deliveries de-liveries was cut about $15,000. Action, similar to that of the growers at the meeting held Friday afternoon, is being taken throughout the beet growing sections of the west, and the president is being swamped with telegrams and resolutions, resolu-tions, urging that he take a hand in getting Secretary Wallace to sign the stabilization of the prices of sugar and save the big industry from ruination. |